Does it matter how you link to your site?

[Boulder90]

Does it matter how you link to your site? i.e. www.example.com versus www.example.com/page5

Does that affect your page rank at all? Thanks.

[edited by: tedster at 5:07 pm (utc) on Jan. 2, 2009]
[edit reason] switch to example.com - it can never be owned [/edit]

[tedster]

An important point to appreciate is that only a "page" gets PageRank - not a site. So yes, links to different URLs on your site are voting PR to different pages. If those pages also link to other pages on your site, then some of that PageRank gets circulated around that link structure. But the main power goes to the URL that is the immediate target of the link.

[Boulder90]

Thanks.